I love this by Dave Winer I’ve been writing about future-safe archives for many years, a way to put down $10K or so, and guarantee best efforts to keep my web presence going long after my death. But I expected it would be implemented by a long-lived university with the help of an insurance company, …
Have you signed up for the new Twitter alternative, Threads? Here’s my first-day thoughts.
Contrasting the start of Twitter in 2006 and the start of Substack’s Notes in 2023
For real this time, I think I’m giving up Twitter in favor of blogging and micro-blogging. Ok, so here’s my first (again) micro-blog post in my notepad. I signed up for the Google I/O developer conference on May 10, 2023 — and I got this virtual badge.
How a 110-inch PDF makes for a better reading experience
Your Google Translate phrases will influence your Google personalized newsfeed
With so many of us working remotely, we miss the small little things about sharing a common physical space. Things like the office whiteboard.
While browsing through a PDF of a 1985 Chicago Tribune, I thought, “this is what the internet was like in 1985”
If you enjoy contemplative places online, give Minus a try.
That Twitter composition box. The small field allows for only 280 characters. Is that restricting?
What I wrote in the New York Times survey for how I listen to podcasts.
Have you ever listened to music and a podcast at the same time?
Test the position of the mic, and use a microphone fuzzy.
If you ever need an injection of positiveness, try this Twitter trick that’ll show tweets with the word “love” from people you follow.
In our age of reading everything online, do you ever miss underlining and annotating in print? Here’s a solution that I use.
I love reading 14 kindergarteners’ response to the question of the day
Whenever I need to type in a timestamp, I just click on my handy app in the dock.
Twitter let me sign up using the name @christiannnotebook but then automatically shortened it to @christiannoteb2 without me knowing during the signup process.
Do you ever use Markdown? In the past 2.5 years since I’ve been doing development work at Tribune, I keep a running log/diary/scratchpad of the progress and my thought process. I was keeping that as a doc in Google Drive. Now I’m writing it as plain text in Markdown format, so the log/diary/scratchpad is lighter. …
